Her latest crime novel, Phantom Instinct, is now on the shelves of your favorite bookstore. She has written many pulse-pounding crime novels.

She will present a program on Story Building: Getting from Idea to Final Draft. The author will describe how she went from her first attempts at writing to getting published, and about some of the major building blocks of a crime novel.

Meg Gardineris an Edgar Award-winning American crime writer, who lives in Austin, Texas. Her best-known books are the Evan Delaney novels. In June 2008, she published the first novel in a new series, featuring forensic psychiatristJo Beckett. More recently she has published three stand-alone novels:Ransom River(June 2012),The Shadow Tracer(June 2013), andPhantom Instinct(June 2014).